Title:
Ghosts by gaslight : stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Voyager, ©2011.
Physical Description:
viii, 389 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780061999710
Abstract:
A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.
Subject Term:
Contents:
The iron shroud / James Morrow -- Music, when soft voices die / Peter S. Beagle -- The shaddowwes box / Terry Dowling -- The curious case of the moondawn daffodils murder / Garth Nix -- Why I was hanged / Gene Wolfe -- The proving of Smollett Standforth / Margo Lanagan -- The jade woman of the luminous star / Sean Williams -- Smithers and the ghosts of the Thar / Robert Silverberg -- The unbearable proximity of Mr. Dunn's balloons / John Langan -- Face to face / John Harwood -- Bad thoughts and the mechanism / Richard Harland -- The grave reflection / Marly Youmans -- Christopher Raven / Theodora Goss -- Rose Street attractors / Lucius Shepard -- Blackwood's baby / Laird Barron -- Mysteries of the Old Quarter / Paul Park -- The summer palace / Jeffrey Ford.